Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 65 108
Rank change year-on-year +1 +43 -60
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 40 29 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.92% 2.78% 1.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.00% 50.88% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29 17 32
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £90,000 -
South East median annual salary £63,750 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% -5.36% -

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 125 57 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.01% 5.47% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 96 41 125
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -13 15 £62,500 -30.56% 3
Staines -2 8 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Woking -17 3 £65,000 -21.21%
Reigate -10 2 - - 4
Egham - 2 £65,000 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 1
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) IIS
1 3 (7.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) GitHub
3 18 (45.00%) Azure
4 12 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (27.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
10 4 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (7.50%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (7.50%) GCP
12 2 (5.00%) Datadog
12 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
1 8 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) RTP
2 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
2 3 (7.50%) VoIP
2 3 (7.50%) Wireshark
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (15.00%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Pinecone
4 2 (5.00%) Redis
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) GitLab
2 7 (17.50%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.00%) Claude Code
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Retail
3 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Administrator
4 8 (20.00%) DevOps Administrator
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 8 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (15.00%) Python Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Systems Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
1 6 (15.00%) Flask
1 6 (15.00%) REST
2 5 (12.50%) Node.js
3 4 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.00%) Django
3 4 (10.00%) Spring
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.50%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (7.50%) Jinja
4 3 (7.50%) Kafka
4 3 (7.50%) OAuth
4 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
4 3 (7.50%) pytest
4 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (7.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (7.50%) Vue
4 3 (7.50%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (57.50%) DevOps
3 16 (40.00%) AI
4 15 (37.50%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (27.50%) Observability
7 10 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
8 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
8 9 (22.50%) Microservices
9 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.00%) OOP
11 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
12 5 (12.50%) Open Source
12 5 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Bash
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (20.00%) C#
4 8 (20.00%) Go
4 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.00%) C++
6 4 (10.00%) C
6 4 (10.00%) Java
7 3 (7.50%) Bicep
7 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 2 (5.00%) Perl
8 2 (5.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) CEH
4 2 (5.00%) CISM
4 2 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (5.00%) GIAC
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Kamailio
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 15 (37.50%) Ansible
3 14 (35.00%) Grafana
3 14 (35.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (20.00%) Proxmox
5 6 (15.00%) Argo
6 3 (7.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) BT
3 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Mitel
3 3 (7.50%) New Relic
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.00%) Qualys
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) Zerto
5 1 (2.50%) EMC